Given name: Welwł Włodek Family name: Rozowski (4)

(1)

A fighter, during the uprising left through the sewers. Together with Edelman he hid in Sniezna Street, blackmailers came there. He left for money and was caught and shot.

(2)

commander of a Bund combat units during the ghetto uprising.

(3)

During the First Action in August 1942, together with a group of six friends (he helped each of them to leave through a hole in a window covered with planks ) he escaped from the transport to Treblinka. He took part in the meeting at Mila Street No. 5. In Roerich's shop there was an underground group under his leadership. He commanded a Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) unit, which fought in Smolna Street on 10 August. Together with Szlama Szustr they blew up a car full of SS soldiers. After the uprising's failure he went to the 'Aryan side'. He hid together with Marek Edelman for some time. They were blackmailed, Welwel tried to get money for the ransom. When he was making his way to the hideout after the curfew, he was denounced by a Polish railwayman. He was arrested and killed, friends did not manage to help him.

(4)

A student of Warsaw University, an active Bund member. In the ghetto he dealt, among others, with Cukunft youth groups. In November 1942 he escaped from a train heading to Treblinka, and returned to the ghetto. In the uprising he commanded a 'five' in the Roerich's shop region, at Smocza Street No. 6 and 8. On 29 april he left the ghetto through sewers and hid with Marek Edelman. After the blackmailers turned him in, he died at the Gestapo in May 1943.

(1) 75,76, (2) s. 110-112, (3) 75,96,172,191,192,201, (4) 196,243